Dos nuevos artículos

He colgado en mi página dos nuevos trabajos míos que aparecerán próximamente..Uno se titula "Why are good theories good?", y ha sido aceptado en Synthèse..Copio aquí el abstract: Franz Huber’s (2008) attempt to unify inductivist and hypothetico-deductivist intuitions on confirmation by means of a single measure are examined and compared with previous work on the theory of verisimilitude or truthlikeness. The idea of connecting ‘the logic of confirmation’ with ‘the logic of acceptability’ is also critically discussed, and it is argued that ‘acceptability’ takes necessarily into account some pragmatic criteria, and that at least two normative senses of ‘acceptability’ must be distinguished: ‘acceptable’ in the sense of ‘being allowed to accept’, and ‘acceptable’ in the sense of ‘being obliged to accept’. Lastly, some connections of confirmation theory with naturalism, intertheoretic reduction, and explanation vs. understanding are explored.
.El otro se titula "Why social sciences are natural, and why they can't", y aparecerá en un monográfico de Empiría dedicado al naturalismo en ciencias sociales..Éste es el resumen: It is argued that there are no fundamental ontological nor epistemological differences between the natural and the social sciences, though the social realm is so complex and unstable that it makes it difficult the emergence (and, hence, the discovery) of significant robust regularities. As a suggestion of how social sciences might be ‘naturalised’, an abstract model of normative based behaviour is also presented, such that it is coherent with empirical discoveries in cognitive sciences and capable of being implemented in computer simulations..Y para que luego digáis que no aviso: tened en cuenta que están en inglés y que son un coñazo..
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